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Why does every article about Vim just recently seem to promote it on the Mac to be used via MacVim? Vim does work in the terminal, and apart from tabs I can't s
by TheRealGL 16y ago
Why does every article about Vim just recently seem to promote it on the Mac to be used via MacVim? Vim does work in the terminal, and apart from tabs I can't see what MacVim is bringing to the party?
- adimitrov 16y agoNative integration, mostly. I.e. clipboard stuff and a shiny interface. Also, colors. Me, I compiled vim over ports and use it via rxvt-unicode or as gvim in an XQuartz session. That, and I run XMonad in that same session. This way, my iMac at work almost feels like a Linux machine, and I can at least get work done here (if I'm not browsing HN.)